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Leona Bess 2 Casper Morning Star. Friday. July (i. 1968 More Texas Ag Violations Services Saturday Funeral services for Mrs. Leona Bess, 50, will be conducted at 2 p.m.

Saturday at the Bustard Funeral Home. Mrs. Bess died Wednesday at her home at 1742 S. Elk. The Rev.

M. L. Jackson of the First Methodist Church will of-ficiate at the services. Ft. Caspar Chapter 4 of the Order of East.

Uncovered By Investigation WASHINGTON 'API The Agri-I June 7, four days after the death iminary investigation, to have culture Department disclosed nl Carl E. Lively, Matagorda received compensation for doing Thursday a month-old investiga- (kwnty manager for the Agricul-'so" t'oo of alleged illegal transfers of tural Stabilization and Conserva Freeman added that as re-rice-planting allotments has It ion Service suit of the findings in the three b' ought the suspension of two de-! As a result of findings so far, counties he has ordered an in-partment officials in Texas. ithc spokesman said. David C. jquiry into handling of allotments A team of department investi-1 Stephens, manager of the ASCSin all rice-growing counties in ten and FBI agents now it.

committee for Brazoria County. Texas. checking looks in Matagorda, T- c- Thornhill. ASCS man- According to the department Waller and Brawria counties to ager for Waller County, have spokesmen, preliminary indica- dJtermiiifc whether there have bn suspended from duty. Notions are that county managers orin.inai violations a de- charges have been filed thus far.

in transferring rice allotments ern Star will ateo conduct last partment spokesman said. The department said it called I from one county to another did It-Ill ml thn i-uua lima fi oftorir.nl cut .1 r-ipl tlw nllntmnlc trnm rites. Burial will be at Highland Cemetery. Sgt. Bess found his wife dead when he returned home Wednesday evening from a lodge meeting.

She had been in ill health for some time. She was born Jan. 27, 1912, in Kimball, and lived in many parts of the United States when she traveled with her father, a The inquiry was touched off woman clerk in the Matagorda the county from which they os County office told Lively's succes tensibly were moved. This had the effect of creating new, and illegal, allotments, the spokesman explained. He said there was evidence that this practice had been going on since 1959 and that recipients of the illegal allotments may have sor she had been offered money by Stephens to continue rice-allotment arrangements he had bad with Lively.

Secretary of Agriculture Orville Freeman told newsmen: "Ap- U.S. Sets Third Try At A Test bridge engineer. She was married to Orville E. Bess in 1928 in Cairo, 111. They came to Guernsey in 1933 where parent ly there is some evidence of malteasance by ceitain individ-1 paid managers in three counties uais in some Texas counties who! a total of about $29,500.

i improperly granted allotments on I According to the spokesman, rice and were shown, in a pre- the allotments all involved rented lands. Bess tts employed by the Bureau of Reclamation until 1935. He worked for the Burlington Co. until 1949 when he joined the Wyoming Highway Patrol. He has been patrol sergeant at Casper since 1933.

In addition to her husband. Mrs. HONOLULU (AP)-The weather was expected to be "fairly de cent" in the Johnston Island area Thursday night for the third try by the United Slates at exploding a high-altitude nuclear blast. Changing weather, however, further riplav in the The department had no figures on the possible total acreage involved in the reported illegal allotments. SDA Opens Annual Bess is survived by a daughter.

'FRISCO COLLAPSES Mrs. William Preston of Casper; her mother, Mrs. Leo Mai lock big largest and feegSl 0 1 1 vu osion in inr run mi i ami i of Lev.iston, her father, the fire started burning out of control. Mayor George Christopher has declared Potrero Hill a disaster area and ordered evacuation of residents. AP Wirephoto.

Movers load belongings from one of 20 homes threatened with collapse in the Potrero Hill area of San Francisco. Two streets have collapsed into blazing Western Pacific Railway tunnel since Saturday when Harrison Files CHEYENNE (AP) William Henry Harrison, Wyoming's lone representative in the U.S. House, filed his nominating petition for re-election on the Republican tick Airlines Scramble To Get WAL River Flow lesls. The shot, which liad been postponed 24 hours, was rescheduled for sometime between II pm. and 2:30 a m.

Friday 4 a.m. and 7:30 a.m. Eastern Standard Time Friday). Twice before, on June 4 and June 19, rocketeers failed to set off a giant nuclear warhead above the antenna-studded island. Both failures were blamed on missile trouble.

The postponement was not ex-nlaincd but apparently the sci Up Slightly et Thursdav. Hawaii Route Ask New Hearings consideration that the domestic Icific market with new routes or expanded authority Emanuel H. Piper of St. Louis. a brother, Robert Piper of Edgemont, and one granddaughter.

Mrs. Bess was found in a parked car behind the family garage. County Coroner William Bustard ruled her death a suicide by carbon monoxide poisoning. Two Are Fined Justice of the Peace William E. Barnes yesterday fined two operators of commercial vehicles.

Leslie A. BuUington, 2434 Coulter Drive, agent for Tuboscope was fined $25 end $4 conts for operating a combination vehicle with a single PSC plate. Clair Weir, 1105 North Jackson, agent for Orville A. Dryer, was fined $25 and ft costs for operating a commercial vehicle in an unsafe condition. phase of the proceeding, involving service to and from Hawaii, can be disposed of only in coordination Burton noted that in connection President Dwight D.

Eisenhower, just before leaving the White House, disapproved the CAB ruling WASHINGTON AP) The Bureau of Economic Affairs asked the Civil Aeronautics Board Thursday for reconsideration and rehearing of its decision on air service for Hawaii. The bureau, a part of the CAB, "I think my record in Congress is a good one," Harrison said in a prepared statement. "I think the majority of Wyoming people will agree that it is, for they have Indicated their support and approval of my voting record and my position on vital issues in thousands of letters and telegrams during the past several months." so far as it applied to international with recent orders setting up in- entists wanted the extra day to vestieations of air service needs I routes over hich he had au recheck the Thor missile and its said there is an "inseparable re-across the Atlantic, and between ELDER CARCICH Elder Theodore Carcich. Lin thonty and asked tnat tne domestic phase of the decision be stayed pending review of the international aspects. On June 8 the CAB lifted the stay of the domestic phase and North and South America, CAB staff studies recommended re-ex-emination of over-all U.S.

policies before air route patterns are "frozen." lationship" between mainland-Haw waitt service and air services to the Orient. Joel Stephen Burton, bureau counsel, said in a petition for re- Harrison was elected to the House in 1960. He served two terms previously from 1951 to 1955. He was defeated in 1954 when he coln, president of the Central Union of Seventh-day Adven-tiste, gave the opening talk at the annual SDA meeting at Willard School auditorium last night. Increased North Platte River! flow below Alcova to 1.000 cfs through the weekend and next week were announced by the Bureau of Reclamation river and reservoir report which also indicated near capacity storage in most reservoirs.

The Bureau said the river flow would remain steady unless irrigation demands necessitated an increase. Reservoir reports included: Alcova 2,442 acres of a maximum 2.500. inflow, 499 sf: outflow, 934 sf; acres of 22,011 capacity; inflow, 368 sf; outflow, 499 sf; Kortes 77 of 92-acre capacity; inflow, 12 sf; outflow, 21 sf. acres of 18,110 capacity; inflow, 1,034 sf; outflow, 1,123 sf; Boysen 19,000 of capacity; 4,853 sf inflow; 2.044 sf outflow; ran for the Senate. Harrison faces G.

L. Soence Similarly, Burton said, it would invited petitions for reconsidera- Speaking on "The Church, the Fremont County attorney, in the be most appropriate for the turn to be filed not later than board to rec: the transpa- Thursday. Body of Christ," Carcich empha- sized that the church has one Aug. 21 primary for the GOP nom ination. Former legislator Frank C.

Em. head, Christ. Many members must cific route pattern. He said this would offer the board a chance to achieve "co- warhead. "We've shot off plenty of these missiles at other bases," said a Johnston Island technician, "and we know they can do the job.

We can't let a failure happen again-and we won't." In both failures the missile and warhead were destroyed without a nuclear detonation. The Honolulu W.ather Bureau j. m.i the test area was expected to have some low clouds night. Earlier forecasts were for clear skies. Scientists need favorable weather so they can photograph the ex-plosion which is expected to light tip the Pacific as far away as Hawaii.

750 miles to the northeast of Johnston Island. Pan American World Airways urged the CAB to reconsider the entire Pacific route complex, in have a unity of purpose and each member contribute in some way erson of Eyanston filed Thursday for the Republican nomination for herence and unity" for the entire eluding domestic service to Ha "We cannot adopt the slogan 'let U.S. international air route pat Sugar Lobby Investigation Scheduled WASHINGTON (AP) The Senate Judiciary Committee plans an investigation of lobbying by foreign interests on behalf of sugar legislation, Chairman James O. Eastland, said Thursday. Eastland disclosed this shortly the minister do it, but we must all be workers together to meet Long.

Long Road During 1961, the Inter-American highway, a part of the Pan-American highway, was open for all-weather travel between the United States end Panama City. It is possible to travel the whole route by automobile along this highway, except for 133 miles in Costa Rica, according to the 1962 Britan-nica Book of the Year. secretary of state against Mrs. Thyra Thomson, widow of the late Rep. Keith Thomson.

Emerson is the son of former Gov. Frank C. Emerson. the objective," he stated The elder reviewed the church organization, the purpose and Dist. Judge Glen G.

Stanton filed what business will be conducted tern. "An updated record may well reveal that strong and exclusive single carrier routings from the U.S. to the Orient may be necessary to combat increasingly aggressive competition from the foreign flag Burton said. A CAB decision of Dec. 7, 1960, gave Western Air Lines a route from California to Hawaii, and provided other airlines in the Pa- at the 10th biennial Wyoming Con ferenee session being held in con Unofficial sources say the ex I .1 Seminoe 16,182 acres of president Kennedy said at capacity; 3,534 sf inflow; 12 sfjms news conference that he un- plosion will be at an altitude Of Vn nuinn hi lf mnrp than funerals 200 miles.

for re-election on the non-partisan ballot as judge of the Second Judicial District taking in Carbon, Albany and Sweetwater counties. Road Toll Now 57 100 voting delegates from Wyoming SDA Churches were officially seated. outflow; Buffalo Bill 6.240 acres of 6, 710 capacity: 4,358 sf inflow; 5, 258 sf outflow. derstood appropriate committees of Congress might look into the situation. He said hearings may start in a day or two.

The committee has jurisdiction over legislation dealing with the 3B urglaries BUSTARD" CV AVENUE AT SPRUCE Phone 23 4-7123 registration of forgffD agents. At his Thursday news conference, Kennedy said some lobby Officially, the nuclear package will be in the megaton-plus range, more powerful than one million tons of TNT. Unofficially, sources say it will be closer to the 10-megaton range. Th. explosion will interrupt Pacific communications tor as long as 32 hours in some areas as a hole is blown in the ionosphere, a layer of space particles which reflects radio signals.

NEA Plans By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wyoming's 1962 highway fatality toll climbed to 57 over "the July Fourth holiday with the deaths of a Sandy, Utah, woman and a Fox Reported Three burglaries over the night ists were paid large fees and, in Elder G. C. Williamson, president of the Wyoming Conference, gave his report on the work done in the state in the last biennium. This morning Elder J. F.

Kent, publishing secretary of the Central Union will give the morning devotion at 8:00 a.m. Following will be the second business session and at 11:00 a.m. Elder Carcich will again address the meeting. At 2 p.m. the final business will be held when final reports of the committees will be given and election of officers lor the next two wan.

"Contrary to Western's widespread statements to the press, the board has not reached a binding determination fixing the domestic air route pattern to Hawaii," Pan American said. new or revised route authority has been granted which Western or anyone else can operate now or later." United Air Lines said that with regard to Hawaiian service the CAB has only two alternatives to deny Western's application for a Honolulu route or to develop a new, up-dated record in the proceeding. United also urged withdrawal of domestic authority in the Pacific for Pan American and Northwest. United argued that "no award of operating authority can be made to Western at this time." Continental Airlines said the hearing record was developed so early in the jet age that it has become inadequate. Continental urged that the board rehear the proceedings in 1963, on the ground that untrustworthy traffic statistics were used in the past.

But Continental said if the board decides to authorize additional service to Hawaii immediately, Continental should be awarded the route because it would be prepared to operate nonstop jet economy service between Hawaii and Chicago, Kansas City, Denver, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Park, man. The toll on the same date last year was 77. Mrs. Beverly Sandquist Jensen.

25, of Sandy, was killed Wednes of July 4 were reported to police yesterday. Paul Gillette, 2924 Hanway, operator of Paul's Standard Service, 2155 CY, reported that between 1:58 a.m. and a.m. yesterday the station was entered and about $10 taken from the beverage machine and $25 to $30 from the day evening when the car in which she was riding overturned on State MRS. LEONA BES5-Services for Mrs.

Leona Bess will be held Saturday at 2 p.m. at the Bustard Funeral Home, with the Rev. M. L. Jackson, of the First Methodist Church, officiating.

Ft. Casper Chapter No. 4, Order of Eastern Star, will also conduct services. Interment will be in Highland Cemetery. Secondary 2100, 12 miles south of Evanston.

She was thrown from Full Year Urged For Park Use JACKSON (AP) The governor's office should exert pressure on the National Park Service to keep Yellowstone National Park highways open throughout the year, Clifford P. Hansen said Thursday. Hansen, seeking the Republican nomination for governor, said scenic state highways now closed should be kept free of snow In the winter. Hansen said Wyoming's lucrative tourist business should be expanded by prolonging the spring, fall and winter seasons. He is a Jackson rancher and president of the University of Wyoming Board of Trustees.

The nark is now officially noen Strike Bv Boycott years will take place. From 3:00 to 4:15 p.m. will be a some instances, stood to collect more if they could produce results in the form of higher quotas allowing larger imports from the countries they represent. He took the position this was deplorable. Amendments to sugar legislation pending in Congress would give premium payments to certain producing countries.

Kennedy noted that the bill, as endorsed by the administration, made no reference to quotas. And he expressed the view that the Senate already has acted on further amendments tliat would bring the measure closer into line with the administration's ideas. "I think the fact that so much publicity has been given to this (lobbying) may serve as a deterrent." Kennedy commented. the car and crushed. Grant Thomas.

41, of Fox Park was killed earlier Wed. when the pickup truck he was driving went off Wyoming 230 about 25 miles west of Laramie and struck some trees. Two other women in the car with Mrs. Jensen suffered minor injuries. They were Mrs.

Judith Cliristenson Milano, 20, Chesterfield. Utah, the driver, and Mrs. Frances Blood, 20, Salt Lake City. cigarette machine. E.

D. Santistevan, 243 West BC said his house had been entered and between $10 and $15 taken. Marbara Morris, 1033 South Ash, told police that while she was upstairs in her apartment house visiting a friend her room had been entered and $35 taken. A $10 bill had been dropped by the intruder in his haste to leave. soul winning hour and at 4:30 Dr.

C. S. Small of Loma Linda University will present the first of his talks. Elder M. E.

Laoww of Washington, DC, will address the group Friday evening. Several hundred will be attending the meetings with the largest crowd being expected Saturday. Visitors are welcome at all of the meetings. By G. K.

HODKNFIELD AP Education Writer DENVER, Colo. (AP)-The National Education Association moved Thursday toward use of retaliatory action against school districts where negotiations fail to settle disputes. 'Die effect would be to blackball the school district, discourage teachers from other districts from MARILYN BRADFORD Services for Marilyn Bradford will be held Friday at 11 a.m. at the Bustard Funeral Home, with the Rev. M.

L. Jackson of the First Methodist Church officiating. Interment will be in Highland Cemetery. taking positions there, and give from May through October, except Western presumably will present wde publicity to the conditions orstman-Ga for the northeast entrance andjus ies replied to the peti- enma martc in fh narl vrhirh "015. 4 which brought on the sanctions This would be the NEA's ulti ALortuary mate weapon, instead of teacher 23 4-0234 710 t.

2nd strikes which it has long opposed The delegates overwhelmingly bpproed the establishment of "formal procedures by which professional organizations and gov JUUIV UUUJ Ul Hit J'Ul "I'll aren't opened until June because ot deep snow. Lindsay Faces 10-Year Charge WORLAND (AP) An escape charge carrying up to 10 years in prison upon conviction has been filed against Ernest Lindsay, 29, convicted murderer now in the state penitentiary in Rawlins. Lindsay walked away from a work crew at the Wyoming Indus Ranch Hand Held In Slaying WORLAND (AP) Officers were holding a 37-year-old ranch hand Thursday in connection with the fatal shooting Wednesday of ranch manager Jack Lyman on a ranch near Ten Sleep. Harold Joffe, Washakie County attorney, quoted Hayden Roach as saying the shooting climaxed an argument between the two PF.TER RICE Funeral services for Peter Rice were conducted Thursday from the Horstman-Gay Chapel with Dr Charles Bream, Lutheran minister, officiating. Interment was in the family plot in Highland Cemetery with military honors accorded by the Veterans of Foreign Wars.

Pallbearers were Eddie Popple, John Clayborn, Dan Tubbs, Babe Miller, Jimmie Milne and Glen Riatory. erning agencies can reach agreement on condition of work, including salaries, and to provide for appeal through educational nan els." This clears the way tor the sanctions poiiry to be submitted in the form of a resolution on Friday. One top NEA official, who defined to be quoted by name, said trial Institute here May 23 and men. Joffe said Lyman's widow. FLOWERS uas apprehended May 30 in Elko.

'Beryl, witnessed the shooting Roach, who had worked on the For AN Occasions Dial 23 7-2377 MCI sanctions are certain to be considered and almost certain to he approved when the delegate as scmbly resumes its discussions on resolutions. The assembly gae Arthur T. Corey, executive secretary of the California Teachers Association, a standing ovation Thursday when ae described the sanctions policy adopted by the CTA last April Corey told the cheering del. fates: "The strike as a weapon 'or teachers inappropriate, un 146 South Center St Nev. Lindsay waived a preliminary hearing and was bound over to District Court on the escape charge.

He will face a hearing July U. Lindsay was convicted of shooting a retired California real estate man in Converse County and uas sentenced death in 1955. ranch for about two months, was arrested at a roadblock east of Worland, 28 miles from Ten Sleep, Wednesday. Joffe said he expected to file charges Friday. An inquest into the death will be held Friday.

The ranch was owned by the late Robert Taylor. A former MIMOIIALS Casper's Only Monument Prompt Courteous Service CASPER MONUMENT CO. Directly Across From Ckmetef Ph. 4-200S 300 S. CeaweO SHRINERS IN TORONTO Motorcycles precede part of the huge Shriner parade in downtown Toronto last night.

Shriners. winding up week-long convention, began the parade at 8 p.m. and ran through 1 a.m. More than 30,000 Shriners partici pated in the parade watched by thousands. It was a repeat performance of Tuesday's parade during the day.

CP Wirephoto. His sentence as Commuted later county commissioner, Lyman was i I it tmr I a a professional, illegal, outmoded and ineffective." 10 me ana wen 10 years. i marnea to layiora wiaow,.

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